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The Official Yacht Week Party – Toronto – 3rd February 2012
We are thrilled to announce the Official Launch Party of The Yacht Week 2012 in Toronto! This exclusive event is happening on Friday February 3rd at one of Toronto’s hottest venues – The Hoxton – and we cordially invite you and your friends to come and join us.
The Yacht Week is a sailing getaway experience like no other, and whether you are new to The Yacht Week or a seasoned veteran of the trip get your crew together (past & present) and join us for the kick-off of the 2012 sailing season.
Get ready to meet former guests of TYW, who will most likely tell you about the best weeks of their lives and how they probably never wanted to leave.
We also have two awesome up-and-coming DJ’s that are going to keep everyone on their feet. Check them out:
Join the event on Facebook for more details!
We are looking forward to seeing you all at The Yacht Week Official Party in Toronto and kicking off what is going to be a great year of smooth sailing!
Skipper Academy
The Yacht Week is looking for Skippers!
We are looking for more than 100 new skippers that would like to be part of The Yacht Week 2012. You will work as an professional skipper in Croatia or Greece and we guarantee it to be the best summer job of your life!
As a skipper you will invoice €400 / week and you will sail on yachts from 40-55 ft with crews from all over the world. You are free to choose how many weeks you want to work, from 2 weeks up to all 11 weeks on the Croatia South route.
To prepare you for the role as a professional skipper we will have 10 days of training in the beginning of April. Join our Skipper Academy in Croatia the from 31st March to 10th April. Everyone who passes the Academy will be offered work during the summer.
For more info visit: www.theyachtweek.com/skippers or sign up as a skipper, apply to the Skipper Academy and we will contact you for an interview: Skipper Signup
Destination Profile: Homing in on Hydra
Over the next few weeks we will be profiling a number of our favourite locations that we encounter along the various routes of The Yacht Week. In the first of these features, we take a look at the Greek island and town of Hydra – the port of choice on the 6th day of the Greece event along the Saronic archipelago, which runs for 8 weeks between July and August. Our Skipper Manager, Anton, recalls a day on this most special of Greek islands.
On this morning we wake up in the small natural harbor of the island. The breeze is picking up and the skippers are slowly starting to move along the row of yachts to prepare for departure. With just a 1-2 hour upwind sail through the stunning Cyklades archipelago, today’s destination is Hydra.
Outside the small port of Hydra the traffic is busy with private sailboats and minor super yachts with ferries trying to access and leave the docks every few minutes. On approaching the entrance you will see a Yacht Week representative on the pier to guide you to a good spot for the night. People are looking, talking and asking about this large sailing flotilla filled with upbeat young people ready to have the time in their lives. The small local port is filled with action and the yachts are moored on top of each other in row after row on the north side of the dock, protected from the gusts of wind.
It’s a beautiful day and the sun is tanning our necks as we walk through the narrow but steep alleys of this historical town. Just a minute’s walk from the dock the waterfront cliffs are filled with guests of The Yacht Week enjoying a swim while discussing the actions of last night. The more adventurous type jump from the 10m high cliffs straight into the pleasantly warm light blue water.
A hit on this destination is the Sun Set Restaurant where you can enjoy one of the most beautiful sunsets in the Mediterranean while sipping on a beautifully blended, sugar-rich Mojito. As soon as the sun is gone the party vibe starts to show and the group quickly relocates for dinner and drinks with a view over the nearby islands that slowly disappear as nightfall approaches. After dinner, we stop at the small bar Hydrolite for some great quality cocktails before moving onto the nightclub Omilios. This place knows how to throw a party like there’s no tomorrow and as the final hoorah of the week this is a night to remember for the rest of your life.
To experience Hydra for yourself and all the other marvelous places along the Saronic Route of our Greece event book now! Grab your friends for the experience of your life… it’s nothing like the real world!
New Trailer for the British Virgin Islands 2012!
With Spring Break fast approaching it can only mean one thing… two weeks of pure pleasure with The Yacht Week in the British Virgin Islands. As a mark of how excited we are getting here, we have produced a brand spanking new BVI video to celebrate the 2012 event. The video, put together by our good friends Hare meets Tortoise Productions, takes the audio mash concept and visualises it, so that the beautiful Caribbean shots are controlled by the DJ and his deck!
Alana Hutton-Shaw, who Directed the video which was shot over the New Year event, told us, “This was one of the most insane Yacht Week trips I’ve done and the best start to the New Year – my only worry is that nothing this year will match up to it!”
We’ve got the medicine Alana… How about coming out again for our Spring Sailing event!?
The Yacht Week Music Video
Fist Pump Sailing and an Exclusive Interview with Pantless Knights
Here in The Yacht Week bridge we can’t bear it any longer… the release of THE best yacht-inspired music video since Jay-Z’s Big Pimpin’ is soon to be released! Last summer, whilst on a Yacht Week event, our good friends from across the Pond, Pantless Knights, set about recording a music video for their new song – Fist Pump Sailing (The Real World). We are proud to announce that the song is available on Spotify and iTunes – as for the much anticipated video, we’ll just have to keep you waiting a few days longer and tease you with some screen shots of all the fun and frolics the guys got up to.
PATRICK: The Yacht Week cannot be overlooked by the curious. If language barriers are your concern, you must not be a very good dancer.
Thanks to modern technology (Skype) we didn’t have to jet across the Atlantic to get an exclusive interview with Patrick Dunnham and Peter Furia of Pantless Knights. Here the guys tell us about what inspired the upcoming video and some VERY exciting projects soon to be launched.
TYW: What inspired the song and video?
PATRICK: There is a famous quote from Peter’s first video for The Yacht Week where a girl says, “This is not real life.” We wanted to capture this sentiment by packaging The Yacht Week experience in a dream sequence, so we crafted an intro to the music video where I accidentally knock both of us unconscious. This dream quickly becomes the ideal world, the real world. People who experience The Yacht Week for the first time can become confused. Are they dreaming? Or did they just finally wake up for the first time in their lives? Many are interacting with people from all over the world in one concentrated experience. Celebrating life with people from all ends of the Earth is as real as it gets.
PETER: We chose the concept Fist Pump Sailing because we haven’t yet seen the two things combined. I think The Yacht Week, and sailing in general, has a highbrow reputation – we wanted to make the point that people don’t take themselves too seriously on The Yacht Week. So we appropriated the fist pump ironically. It was a fun project all around. We were also fortunate enough to have the instrumental produced by our very talented friend Jeff Kite, who is currently working with Beat Club and Julian Casablancas.
TYW: Where was the video shot?
PATRICK: Croatia and San Francisco.
TYW: What do you think of The Yacht Week?
PETER: The Yacht Week is a unique blend of sailing, exploring new places and cultures, and good times with close friends and new friends.
PATRICK: The Yacht Week cannot be overlooked by the curious. If language barriers are your concern, you must not be a very good dancer.
TYW: What was your best memory from the trip?
PATRICK: The first moment of silence when the motor shuts off and the sails fill.
PETER: For me, it was a day trip we took on the island of Vis. We rented scooters at the port, got a tip from a Croatian local on a special restaurant, and then road 45 minutes into the rural countryside to a remote village. We were welcomed by the restaurant owner, who cooked us a five course meal with ingredients entirely harvested from his property. We also discovered Rakija.
TYW: What are you working on for your next project?
PETER: We’re excited to be working on a brand new YouTube channel called “American Hipster”. We’ve partnered with YouTube on the project and are excited to be launching 3 weekly shows starting in April, each with its own unique angle on hipster culture. It’ll be a very entertaining blend of pop culture and comedy. We’ll also be producing some hilarious music videos between now and then so keep an eye out for those.
Patrick and Peter joined us on Week 34 in Croatia to film the music video for Fist Pump Sailing (The Real World). Their next project, American Hipster, launches on April 2nd, 2012 on YouTube in what can be described as a comedy channel that explores pop culture through the lens of hipsterism – that ironically popular movement built on not being popular!
Press Coverage – Condé Nast Traveler Online
Thank you to our fellow travel enthusiasts over at Condé Nast Traveler for this article, ‘Crew it Yourself‘. We hope you guys can join us this summer for a bit of Mediterranean fun!
Press Coverage – TYW Exclusive in Tatler
February’s issue of Tatler sees Tom Yarwood take the plunge and join The Yacht Week in Croatia, South Route, for Week 31. We are very grateful to Tom for coming on board and hope he can join us again at another event soon. Check out his article below and let us know what you think!
The Official Yacht Week Party – Amsterdam- 17th December 2011
Party Time
May we propose you to The Yacht Week? This should be your first impression: Sailing on boats over 12 feet long along the coasts of Croatia, Italy, Greece, Turkey and the British Virgin Islands.
On Saturday December 3rd @ 20:00 Yacht Week opened their booking systems for summer 2012 sailing events. Over 400 yachts were booked after just a few hours – Book your yacht before its too late!
The Yacht Week on December 17th will take over Jimmy Woo in Amsterdam. After London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Paris, Brussels, Helsinki, Milan, Madrid, Zurich and Bucharest this will be our first party in The Netherlands.
We will be also including our Summer 2011 Yacht Week DJ’s:
- Terry Toner
- Claire & Sheila Hill
- Fred & Mikey
- The Popes
- The Pony Tails
- The Second Sense
- Epic & Ginger
Pictures of the night at Jimmy Woo will be posted on The Yacht Week Dutch page and will reach our Dutch tabloids as well. You do not want to miss it!
Come to The Official Yacht Week Party in Amsterdam!
To reserve tables, do it fast because there are only a few left (from € 400, – each). Regular tickets are € 15 and this is an evening you do not want to miss, so make sure you have arranged a ticket in time!
Looking forward to see you all at The Yacht Week Official Party in Amsterdam!! Everyone is welcome!
- Date: Saturday 17.12.2011
- Time: 23.00
- Club: Jimmy Woo
- Dresscode: Navy Nightlife / Marine
- Time: 23.00
Press Coverage – Sunday Times
We love it when we’re recommended in round up pieces especially when it’s all about getting away from the crowds.
Big thanks to Rob Ryan – we’re absolutely thrilled.
Denmark Party – 3rd December – Copenhagen
- Date: 03.12.11
- City: Copenhagen
- Venue: Castenskiold
- Facebook Link
Nights are getting darker. Weather is getting cold. But fear not!
December 3rd winter will turn short, when The Yacht Weeks Release party 2012 takes on the success from last year and opens the window to the Mediterranean sun at Simons Copenhagen.
With the next generation of Swedish House Mafia among our world class dj line-up – playing to raise the temperature – The Yacht Week and Simons will let your dreams fly – fly away to …next summers The Yacht Week.
Experience the one December night only, where you can celebrate your new yacht booking and be amazed by tunes delivered by:
Main Deck
- Oliver Ingrosso (SE)
- TooManyLeftHands (DK)
- Sorte Slyngel (DK)
- Karlo (DK)
- Introduction to The Yacht Week
Lower Deck
- Don Cato + Bjørklund
- Hahn + Sonne
- TooFewLeftHands (Karlo + Eickhoff)
- Sindlev + Cueto
- Rode + Flou-Jensen
• Closed preparty for invited only from 21:00 •
